Growth Metrics

Slb (SLB) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Slb has reported Return on Capital Employed over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.32% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Capital Employed at 0.32% for Q4 2025, down 41.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.32% (down 41.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.02%, down 1.0%.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.32% at Slb, down from 0.57% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Capital Employed for SLB hit a ceiling of 0.73% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.23% in Q1 2023.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 0.41% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.43%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: soared 40bps in 2024 and later crashed -41bps in 2025.
  • Slb's Return on Capital Employed stood at 0.4% in 2021, then tumbled by -36bps to 0.26% in 2022, then increased by 26bps to 0.32% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 126bps to 0.73% in 2024, then crashed by -57bps to 0.32% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 0.32% (Q4 2025), 0.57% (Q3 2025), and 0.67% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.